AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Catherine Clifford
A legal academic says one of the most difficult tasks confronting the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse is to ensure those accused of sexual assault are treated fairly.
Foundation Professor of Law and lecturer in evidence at the University of New England, Professor Eilis Magner, says vast amounts of evidence will be tendered naming alleged perpetrators.
She says some of that evidence and testimony will be impacted by the passage of time and will not be pristine.
“There’s always an issue when the memory is being invoked from that long ago as to whether or not the memory can be relied upon,” she said.
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